FASHION & TEXTILE MUSEUM

2003.7.6　 Text: Sari Uchida

Fashion designer Zandra Rhodes, whose popularity was at its peak in the 1970s, is enjoying a comeback thanks to her newly opened Fashion and Textile Museum. It will house three thousand of Rhodes' own creations and al...

SAO PAULO GRAFFITI ART

2003.7.1　 Text: Greice Costa

Sao Paulo is one of the greatest graffiti centers in the world. The city has famous artists like Os Gemeos, Herbert, Speto, Nina, John Howard (from old school), Onesto e Vitche, and a new generation of talents: Flip, ...

KLOSTERNEUBURG

2003.7.1　 Text: Christina Merl

An unconventional riverside hut near Vienna raises hopes for more good contemporary architecture to be realised on the shores of river Danube. In hot and summery Vienna, the living's easy. The city has a lot to off...

90 SQUARE METERS

2003.6.1　 Text: Ania Markham

How come things work here in Amsterdam that would never work anywhere else? Take "90 Square Meters", for example - this is a shop situated on an ultra-modern housing development on an island (KNSM Eiland) to the no...

ELEMENT WEISS

2003.6.1　 Text: Andrew Sinn

The couple Bea Demel and Carsten Voeller started their own multi-media agency sometime ago. Bea studied graphic-design and didn't want to work in an agency. Carsten formerly was an industrial-programmer and decided to...

EARTH MUSIC

2003.5.31　 Text: Satoshi Ota

"Earth Music" is a new clothing store that opened in May last year in Harajuku, Tokyo. "Earth Music & Ecology" is a popular street ladies' brand and "Earth Music" is the mens' version of it. The brand presen...

VIENNA CITY LIBRARY

2003.5.31　 Text: Christina Merl

On 9th April, Vienna City Library finally opened its doors to the public. The "multi-structured multimedia open-shelf library" is one of the most modern public libraries in Europe and covers 6,085 square meters of usa...

CARGOLIFTER AG ARENA

2003.5.31　 Text: Paul Snowden

Probably one of the most incredible things I have ever seen, definitely future city ala Tokyo style, was the CargoLifter Ag Arena in Breisen-Brand, a 45-minute drive from Berlin. During the bus trip out we were shown ...

DOCOR SQUAT

2003.5.31　 Text: Brian Webb

For now the Docor Squat is in the guts of Koreatown, on that stretch of Western, just to the south of Melrose, that is lined with furniture stores and long buildings that have no windows at street level. If you happen...

GIBO

2003.4.24　 Text: Sari Uchida

In early February, Julie Verhoeven opened her new shop GIBO in Conduit Street, off Regent Street. She is already known as an illustrator of decadent female figures with huge eyes, and has now incorporated her art into...

WAAGENBAU

2003.3.31　 Text: Daniel Goddemeyer

On February 15th, the Hamburg based music and booking agency MFOC (Music For Our Children) held a showcase at the Waagenbau, a location right in the Schanzenviertel in Hamburg. Being known in and around Hamburg for ...

GRAZ

2003.2.1　 Text: Christina Merl

Do you know Graz? No, never heard of? Well, I think I should tell you a few details about "Europe's Capital of Culture" in 2003 then. For those who don't know it - the title is an annual award from the European Union ...